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Offline Chris_

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Deep-sea Oil Plume Goes Missing
« on: August 31, 2010, 02:14:10 PM »
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Controversy arises over whether bacteria have completely gobbled it up
By Janet Raloff 

In May, researchers began reporting that the massive jets of crude emanating from BP’s damaged Deepwater Horizon well were creating deep, diffuse plumes of oil in the Gulf of Mexico. Since then, chemical oceanographers have been probing the plumes for indirect clues about how quickly native bacteria might be gobbling up the oil.

Microbial ecologist Terry Hazen of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California now thinks he has a surprising answer: very quickly.

He’s part of a broad team of scientists from two Department of Energy national labs and two universities that has been collecting plume samples continually for months. In a paper posted online August 24 in Science, the team reports data from late May to early June showing that those deep-sea plumes enticed a hitherto unknown cold-water–adapted bacterium to rapidly chow down on the oil.

Indeed, Hazen says, those bugs have been so voracious that for one plume of oil his team had been following, “within the last three weeks we no longer detect a deep plume. At all.” It went away approximately two weeks after the well was capped on July 15, he observes. Its oil “is completely undetectable.”

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Re: Deep-sea Oil Plume Goes Missing
« Reply #1 on: August 31, 2010, 07:24:11 PM »
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TV doc, what this boils down to for us that have absolutely no knowledge about bacteria in chemistry is:::::::

We had a humongous oil spill, out of nowhere these natural bacteria came charging in and ate it all up.   We don't know what , where, how or when these things came from, never heard of them before.

Now what was the stuff that BP was dumping in the water that made people ill.?  Why did we try to stop BP from dumping so much.?

How can we call this bacteria Native, are they saying Native to Earth or the area they out of the blue came in to .?    Are they saying these bacteria are not man made so any repercussions of what they do next will not be traced to them? [BP]

Where will the bacteria go now, will they morph into something else when their food supply runs out ?

Will they multiply to the point they use up the oxygen in the oceans, how do we know this bacteria will not spread to life outside the water and take root in the swamps and rivers.?

Sheeit,  we are being told a brand new life form that we nothing about has been found that is of benefit to mankind and this news is not on the upper fold of the front  page of all news papers world wide.

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Re: Deep-sea Oil Plume Goes Missing
« Reply #2 on: September 03, 2010, 10:30:52 PM »
TV doc, what this boils down to for us that have absolutely no knowledge about bacteria in chemistry is:::::::

We had a humongous oil spill, out of nowhere these natural bacteria came charging in and ate it all up.   We don't know what , where, how or when these things came from, never heard of them before.

Now what was the stuff that BP was dumping in the water that made people ill.?  Why did we try to stop BP from dumping so much.?

How can we call this bacteria Native, are they saying Native to Earth or the area they out of the blue came in to .?    Are they saying these bacteria are not man made so any repercussions of what they do next will not be traced to them? [BP]

Where will the bacteria go now, will they morph into something else when their food supply runs out ?

Will they multiply to the point they use up the oxygen in the oceans, how do we know this bacteria will not spread to life outside the water and take root in the swamps and rivers.?

Sheeit,  we are being told a brand new life form that we nothing about has been found that is of benefit to mankind and this news is not on the upper fold of the front  page of all news papers world wide.

Bill shit.

Vesta, the floor of the Gulf of Mexico releases, on average, about 5 million gallons of crude oil in the form of natural seepage every year, without mankind doing a thing to cause it, sustain it, control it or contain it.  Where the hell do you think all of that seepage goes?  Is it not at least REMOTELY possible that God, knowing that the ocean floor was a poor containment vessel for the hydrocarbon by-products of millions upon millions of his own creatures keeling over and returning "dust to dust" so to speak (oil ma'am, that's oil), might not have included this little innocuous organism on his grand creation plan, which, without fanfare or the least degree of oversight or give a shit from mankind, lives in the oceans and consumes free floating hydrocarbons for energy?
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